Get full access to Hands-On Web Scraping with Python and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Exploring Beautiful Soup

The Python bs4 library contains a BeautifulSoup class, which is used for parsing. For more details on Beautiful Soup and installing the library, please refer to the official documentation on installing Beautiful Soup at https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/. On successful installation of the library, we can obtain the details as shown in the following screenshot, using Python IDE:

Successful installation of bs4 with details

Also, the collection of simple (named) and explainable methods available as seen in the preceding screenshot and encoding support makes it more popular among developers.

Let's import ...

Get Hands-On Web Scraping with Python now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now